[Gluster-users] root needed for getfattr ?

[Brad Hubbard]

On 01/15/2015 10:43 PM, Heiko Schröter wrote:
> Hello,
>
> a) do you need to have 'root' rights to request file attributes with "getfattr" on a client mounted gluster file system ?
>
> b) was it at any time in history of gluster accesible by non-root users ? (or was there a bug ?)
>
>
> Reason for asking is that i have some users stating that it worked "some days" ago for "normal" users but not now anymore.
> The gluster version or setup has not been changed, also no changes to the XFS brick file systems.
> Version 3.2.5 (yep, i know it is old ...)
> I couldnt find anything about getfattr rights issues in the docs.

# mount localhost:big_dist_rep1 /mnt/

# ls /mnt/
upstream  upstream.tgz

# stat /mnt/upstream.tgz
   File: `/mnt/upstream.tgz'
   Size: 1030758400      Blocks: 2010552    IO Block: 1048576 regular file
Device: 1dh/29d Inode: 13061784644348572606  Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2014-08-20 21:08:26.837540779 +0000
Modify: 2014-08-15 04:17:27.000000000 +0000
Change: 2014-08-15 04:37:43.656791859 +0000

# su - fred

$ getfattr -d -e hex -m. /mnt/upstream.tgz
getfattr: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: mnt/upstream.tgz
system.posix_acl_access=0x0200000001000600ffffffff04000400ffffffff080004003000000010000400ffffffff20000400ffffffff

$ logout

# getfattr -d -e hex -m. /mnt/upstream.tgz
getfattr: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: mnt/upstream.tgz
system.posix_acl_access=0x0200000001000600ffffffff04000400ffffffff080004003000000010000400ffffffff20000400ffffffff

What version are you running and what does "stat" say about the file permissions?

>
>
> Thks
> Heiko
>
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Kindest Regards,

Brad Hubbard
Senior Software Maintenance Engineer
Red Hat Global Support Services
Asia Pacific Region